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At the Taipei Aerospace & Defense Technology Exhibition, there was an abundance of counter-uncrewed air systems, or counter-UAS. Many different vendors were hawking their wares, especially hard-kill solutions that physically damage the target. But there is one place, seemingly, where hard-kill counter-UAS is absent. None of the companies have yet persuaded Taiwan’s defense ministry to buy their weapons.

Taiwan has implemented jamming systems since 2022, when Chinese drones flew over the outlying island of Kinmen unimpeded. However, on the frontline in Ukraine electronic warfare is now so intense that radio-controlled drones effectively have no chance — this has led to the widespread adoption of systems that are impervious to jamming, like fiber optic controls.

It was reported in January that Taiwan had purchased counter-UAS systems to protect its airbases, which would be deployed in 2025 and 2026. The company providing these systems is Tron Future, a domestic manufacturer. Delivery of all 26 systems will be complete by April of 2026, according to Misha Lu, a staff specialist at the company.

The T. Interceptor CS, one of two different interceptors Tron Future was promoting, is a single-use drone that is intended to take out between three to five enemy drones. Tron Assistant Manager Chai Chun-yu explained to Domino Theory that the CS targets the propellers of enemy vehicles, knocking them out of the sky and moving on to another enemy. Itself much smaller than one meter across, the CS should be effective against drones with a wingspan of up to two meters. Chai said that the CS is six months away from production.

The second interceptor was called T. Interceptor MP and is a reusable drone that can shoot nets at smaller enemy drones, especially quad-copters whose rotors are vulnerable to fouling.